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Canadians hint at scaling back immigration due to pandemic fallout
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting unemployment could lead to immigration to Canada being cut for the first time in a decade.
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GOP lawmakers press Trump to suspend visas over coronavirus job losses
A number of House Republicans have joined some of their Senate colleagues in writing their own letter to Trump urging that "unaddressed guest worker programs" represent a "greater threat" than did green cards to American jobs.
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U.S. unemployment rate soars to 14.7 percent, the worst since the Depression era
The U.S. unemployment rate jumped to 14.7 percent in April, the highest level since the Great Depression, as most businesses shut down or severely curtailed operations to try and limit the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
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Border Apprehensions Drop to 3-year Low
Border Patrol officers apprehended only 16,789 illegal border crossers in April. It's the lowest number of apprehensions since April 2017 just a few months after Pres. Trump took office. The rapid decline in apprehensions is attributed to both the Covid-19 pandemic and the economic situation.
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Sens. Cotton, Cruz, Hawley & Grassley Press Trump to Suspend Most Visas
President Trump is getting new pressure from a quartet of conservative senators to pause the issuance of a set of visas because of coronavirus-related job losses.
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Who Cares About Insects? We All Should If We Care About Nature
Immigration is driving U.S. population growth, and will continue to account for almost all population growth over the next forty years. We need to think about the effects of growth when we formulate immigration policy. One of the effects is continuing sprawl, and the loss of habitat for wildlife.
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Judicial Watch sues to stop California's illegal immigrant stimulus program
Judicial Watch announced a lawsuit Tuesday aimed at stopping California’s illegal immigrant stimulus program, saying Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to give out $75 million in taxpayers’ money to help those in the country illegally survive the coronavirus crisis is illegal.
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Are doctors and nurses 'Jobs Americans Won't Do'? A bipartisan group of Senators would have you believe so
Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), David Perdue (R-Ga.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), and Chris Coons (D-Del.) have introduced legislation that would give 40,000 green cards to foreign doctors and nurses, claiming we have a shortage of healthcare providers. But is the "shortage" due to a lack of Americans willing to enter the field, or is it more due more systemic issues?
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Green card bill would bring more foreign doctors, nurses to US despite greatest job loss since Great Depression
A group of senators introduced new legislation Thursday to grant 40,000 unused green card slots to foreign health care workers needed to help U.S. medical professionals fight the coronavirus pandemic, despite the President's "immigration ban" and over 30 million joblessness claims in the past six weeks.
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IRS Issuing Stimulus Checks to Foreign Students
A tax filing error has led to thousands of foreign students who performed work in the United States to receive $1,200 stimulus checks. Many of stimulus recipients are no longer in the United States, but performed work in the U.S. while in the country on either an F-1 student visa or a J-1 cultural exchange visa.